By 9 00 or 10 00 downtown denver and they continue. We may be left with a few spots and foggy skies. We are sitting at 74 in denver and soak it in while you can because we will be watching a bit of a warmup coming this week as well as stormier weather. I will let you know saturday or sunday that will be wetter and summertime. Yes, the summertime will be back. We figured that. Thanks, danielle. You bet. The centennial man accused of killing his as shooting his wife and her friend was saying crazy stuff before the rampage. The shooters wife says she wanted him to get checked out at a hospital but instead he started to shoot. Reporter kevin lions wife wanted him to get help. According to testimony crazy stuff and acting weird days leading up to the shooting. In april he killed his neighbor dr. Atkinson that came out of the home to help one of the women that lions shot. He shot his wife and friend. Both survived. Fridays testimony shed more light on what happened. Cameras werent allowed in
Special edition of today at the Olympic Games. With matt lauer live from rio de janeiro, brazil, and Savannah Guthrie live from rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a split edition of today on a friday morning. Savannah, its great to see you. We have reached the final hours of our countdown to tonights Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games and i will be honest with you, im above. Youre nervous . You dont have to do a back flip, do you . No, do you know what, thats actually right. We are hosting the Opening Ceremony, what do we have to be nervous about . Were not competing in the Olympic Games. I have to tell you, savannah, youve been to the olympics, you know sometimes in the morning when the crowd gathers here at an olympic set up wonderful little moments, unexpected moments. I had one of those a second ago, i was Walking Around talking to on copacabana beach and i walked up to this guy right here and i said, hey, love the tv, team u. S. A. , you got the simone b
Nightly news from copacabana beach be begins right now. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from the olympic summer games in rio. Good evening, from copacabana beach, the picturesque ocean front skyline ablaze in lights as this city, this country this, continent are tonight lighting the olympic cauldron for the first time ever, ashe games beginning. It hasnt been an easy road, a lot has happened in this country, from political upheaval to a disease pandemic since rio was awarded these games in 2009. It starts just a few miles in from us, at the maracana stadium where the olympic opening ceremonies for the 2016 summer olympics are taking stephanie gosk, good evening. Reporter im standing in front of the United States teammates that are among the more than 11,000 athletes from 207 countries that are getting ready to march into maracana stadium. Tonight it will be on display like never before. For rio, it all comes down to this. Nearly seven years after w
United states topped 1800 this week, mostly from travel to foreign countries. But in a miami neighborhood, Health Officials say local mosquitoes have now infected at least 16 people with the virus, which causes severe birth defects. Pregnant women are advised to stay away from floridas socalled zika zone. As marlie hall reports, the outbreaks that sent a chill through floridas tourism industry. Reporter insecticide rained down on mimes zika zone. The spraying continued this morning by air and by land. My one job is to protect this baby. I cant get bit by a mosquito. Reporter lisa isaza is 36 weeks pregnant. She and other expectant mothers, like leah lacero, are on edge. The most fearful thing is i dont want to have a child who ends up with some of the severe cerebral defects that have been talked about, including microcephaly. Reporter another concern tourism. Floridas biggest industry. Visitors spent about 89 billion here last year. Governor rick scott is doing damage control. This is
As he did in the primaries. I i would rather not go the on november. That is s going to make my brain hurt too much. Amy donald trump has described him as a third rate talent, and a sleaze ball, a jerk, and a total loser. Today well speak with Garry Trudeau, creator of the popular comic strip doonesbury and the first cartoonist to win a a Pulitzer Prize. He has been writing about donald trump and a possible run for the presidency for decades. Making fun of everything from his hair to o his ego to his rampant use of insults, and his cartoons have just been collected in a new book titled, yuge 30 years of doonesbury on trump. Then the 2016 summer olympics open tonight in maracana stadium in Rio De Janeiro, brazil. More than 10,000 athletes across the world have convened in rio olympic city for one of the most widely watched sporting events of the year. Not a deephuge crisis. Thistheless, you see managed this city has to transform a city and to put Olympic Games on the stage. Amy we will